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GWP 'Meet Our Partners' Initiative Tisza Office Presentation GWP ’Meet Our Partners’ initiative Tisza Office presentation The Tisza Office of the Middle Tisza Water Directorate (KÖTIVIZIG) was ceremonially inagurated on 4th November 2014 by the participation of Mr. Ivan Zavadsky, Executive Secretary of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), Mr. István Joó, Danube Region Strategy Ministerial Commissioner (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade), Mr. István Láng, Deputy Director-General of the General Directorate of Water Management. As a background of the opening of the Tisza Office, in the period of the Hungarian EU Presidency in the first semester of 2011, a Tisza Conference was held in Szolnok Town Hall and a Tisza Declaration was adopted containing the relevant objectives and instruments. The main task of the Tisza Office is the coordination of Tisza issues at national level in partnership with the ICPDR, the Secretariat of the Danube Region Strategy Ministerial Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the River Basin Management and Water Protection Department of the Ministry of Interior, the General Directorate of Water Management, different departments of KÖTIVIZIG and with other Hungarian and foreign partners. 4th November 2014, Szolnok Official opening of the Tisza Office The 7180 km2 operating area of the Middle Tisza District Water Directorate in Szolnok (briefly KÖTIVIZIG) is located in the middle part of the Hungarian Tisza section. Almost all of the area is plain at the Great Plain, including the majority of the county of Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, the southern part of the Pest and Heves counties and the north-eastern corner of Bács-Kiskun County. Due to lowland circumstances, the specific density of water management facilities (canals, embankments, sluices) is twice as the national average. As a water management organization, our most important task is the operation, maintenance and development of state-owned water management facilities (flood protection lines, dykes, flood reservoirs, inland excess water facilities, pumping stations, canals, irrigation facilities, etc.), as well as defense, and prevention of water caused damages. Our professional tasks include wide scale of water management related issues, including agricultural water supply in our area of operation. Almost 56% of the Directorates area is threatened by floods, but the frequency of events related to inland excess water, and droughts and water scarcity is also significant. There have been four notable floods in the last two decades, which have exceeded the standard flood levels (1999, 2000, 2006, 2010). It also has an impact on the rise of flood risks, due to the duration of flood waves is also increasing. Our organization supervises 707.1 kilometers of flood protection facilities, manages 4316.7 kilometers of canaly system, and operates water management facilities of national importance, such is the Lake Tisza and the irrigation water supply system from there, which is the country's largest water management system. We also have to mention the large flood reservoirs: Tiszaroff, Hanyi- Tiszasülyi and Nagykunság flood reservoirs, and the Zagyva reservoir reservoirs of Jásztelek and Borsóhalom. They have great impact on flood peak level mitigation. In order to operate them fully, it is essential to operate the Regional Laboratory. The role of the institute in agricultural irrigation water supply has very high significance, we supply around 50-70 million cubic meters of water to agribusinesses in the region. Due to National funding resources opened after the accession of EU Membership, complex developments have been implemented in the area in the last decade (Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, Pest, Heves) with a value of HUF 61 billion. It has great positive effects on irrigation facilities and inland water prevention and protection. We have been project partners and consortium-based project co- partners in the following international projects: • JOINTISZA (As Co-Lead Partner together with the General Directorate of Water Management of Hungary). The Project implementation period was finished in September 2019 • FramWat • RAINMAN • Danube Floodplain • IDES • TEACHER-CE Tisza Office is initiating and participating in the realisation of projects, coordinating the international relations of KÖTIVIZIG, it is responsable for the organization and realization of programs of incoming and outgoing professional delegations and providing translation and interpretation. Together with the General Directorate of Water Management of Hungary (OVF), KÖTIVIZIG, including Tisza Office was responsable for the realization of JOINTISZA Project, which result is the Integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan (ITRBMP). All of the Tisza countries (Ukraine, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia) took part in the preparation and implementation of the project from 2017 to 2019. In September 2019, representatives of the 5 Tisza countries signed the Tisza Memorandum of Understanding strenghtening the cooperation among the interested parties. In the Memorandum, Hungary offered the contribution of Tisza Office in Tisza-related international issues. Projects managed by the Tisza Office As a flagship project, the main aim of JOINTISZA (2017-2019) was to improve the status of waters of the Tisza River Basin. It focused on the interactions of two key aspects of water management — river basin management (RBM) and flood protection — while taking into account the relevant stakeholders who play a pivotal role in the Tisza RBM planning process. The vproject contributed to enhance the integration of water management and flood risk prevention planning and actions for the next River Basin Management planning cycle, in line with the relevant EU legislation. The project involved the joint efforts of five countries of the Tisza Basin (Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine) and international institutions as the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR). Tisza tree (Taxus baccata) planting in ’JOINTISZA Grove’ of Szolnok Finally, the main output of the project is the updated Integrated Tisza River Basin Management Plan and moreover the Tisza Memorandum of Understanding (Tisza MoU) signed by high level representatives of the concerned countries in September 2019 in Budapest. Signing of the Tisza Memorandum of Understanding (Tisza MoU) by representatives of the five Tisza countries in Budapest, September 2019 Danube Floodplain (Reducing the flood risk through floodplain restoration along the Danube River and tributaries). The main objective of the project is improving transnational water management and flood risk prevention while maximizing benefits for biodiversity conservation. The expected change is improved knowledge, among the countries located within Danube River Basin, related to integrative water management through restoration of floodplains, combination of classical and green infrastructure, natural retention measures, involving all related stakeholders. Stakeholders’ forum of the Danube Floodplain Project in Szolnok FramWat (Framework for improving water balance and nutrient mitigation by applying small water retention measures). FramWat aims to strengthen the regional common framework for floods, droughts and pollution mitigation by increasing the buffer capacity of the landscape. It will do so by using the natural (small) water retention measures (N(S)WRM) approach in a systematic way. So far, the majority of water management and flood protection measures lack innovation and follow more traditional approaches without taking into account valuable ecosystem services provided by nature in the landscape settings. FramWat project meeting in Ljubljana RAINMAN (Integrated Heavy Rain Risk Management). Heavy rain events are a major environmental risk in Europe: they can hit any location with only very short warning time. The devastating impacts of extreme rainfalls are the most significant natural risks in Central Europe. Every year people die, thousands lose their homes, and environmental damages like water pollution occur. RAINMAN aims to reduce the losses in the natural and built environment caused by heavy rain. We support municipalities and regions to cope with the hazards of heavy rain and to mitigate heavy rain risks as far as possible. IDES (Improving the water quality of the Danube and its tributaries, integrated management of floodplains based on ecosystem services). This project was initiated by the Catholic University of Eichstatt Ingolstadt in Germany. IDES Project aims to add water quality targets to this effort and improve water quality by developing an integrative floodplain management based on Ecosystem Services (ES). The ES concept in the Danube region is actually not used to proactively manage different activities holistically. The use of a River Ecosystem Service Index in Germany has even shown that water management can be significantly improved by the identification of synergies between the various ES, which reflect the various sectoral interests and targets. The project implementation started in July 2020, the end-date is December 2022. TEACHER-CE (Joint efforts to increase water management adaptation to climate changes in Central Europe). Climate change consequences are already visible in central Europe, and call for better risk management coordination. TEACHER-CE addresses this need by integrating and harmonizing results of previously funded INTERREG, Horizon2020, and Life projects into the TEACHER-CE Toolbox. This tool will focus on climate-proof management
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